IB Physics SL C 3 3 Refractive Index Topic Practice

Question 1

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A group of students is investigating refraction in a semi-circular glass block.

Light from a ray box enters the curved side of the block. The light passes through the block and leaves, refracted, at P .

They plot a graph of the variation with the sine of θi\theta_{i} of the sine of θr\theta_{r}.
They add uncertainty bars for sin⁡θr\sin \theta_{r} for the first and last data point and draw the best-fit line.

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Determine the value of the refractive index of the glass with its absolute uncertainty.

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